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Well, thank God for Prentice

by Paul Wells on Friday, December 18, 2009 9:13pm - 139 Comments

From the Inkless emailbox, this news release from the PMO:

STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA

Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued the following statement on the occasion of the closing of the 15th Climate Change conference in Copenhagen:

“This agreement is the result of two weeks of negotiations in which Canada and Environment Minister Prentice, our chief negotiator, played a key part.

“And over the past 24 hours, I have met with numerous leaders to reaffirm that Canada remains committed to a comprehensive, post-2012 agreement that is fair and effective.

“All countries must commit to taking concrete action to address climate change as part of a new treaty – actions which are measurable, verifiable and reportable.

“Canada is working to align our clean energy and climate change policies with those of the Obama Administration. This approach recognizes the high degree of integration of our two economies.

“Canada is prepared to contribute our fair share of financial support, particularly to the poorest and most vulnerable nations.”

Tags: Prentice was synonymous with the negotiations, which is why nobody else noticed or mentioned him

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Loraine Lamontagne

Seems to me that when you call a meeting where a number of people are opposed to your ideas, you'd want to include as many allies as possible to support you.

I just don't buy Harper's explanation. Canada, because of Stephen Harper's personality, was purposely excluded from meetings. We are dealing with a man who as prime minister of Canada found nothing more important to do one day than to stand in the House and read lies about female political opponents.
kcm

Sorry bout the mistakes…tired i guess.

http://intensedebate.com/people/CanadianSense CanadianSense

I have NO problem cleaning up the Environment and passing the costs to EVERYONE to have a level playing field. It is about priorities and what we can afford and the fear mongering end of the world BS has to stop.

KCM, a start we should all want is critical discourse and the AGW proponents to drop the slurs,attacks and claim they have settled science in the area of climate and labelling skeptics as deniers.

I am not interested on a small group of scientists turn activists suggest the world is ending by citing a small time of earth's history and refuse to release their data, models to for testing outsided the tainted peer review group.

If AGW proponents look and stop attacking everyone as a denier/oil shill many EXPERTS have said

1) We don't know and we don't agree with the conclusions from the IPCC. The Authors of the Reports removed any dissent in those UN Reports. (Same one being investigated for refusing to share Data, destroy raw data, etc)

The dissenting opinion has been buried and those experts have been targeted. (That should be the biggest concern for everyone)

The MSM has dismissed the leaked, reported it several weeks later, and have downplayed the UN IPCC behaviour. *Biased and ill informed instead of investigating the evidence of a whistleblower.

Kcm, if you dont accept the detainee redaction, how can you accept the UN, CRU, NASA refusing to release the models, raw temp, emails for scrutiny regarding a New Global tax?

kcm

I rarely excecpt conspiracy theories at face value…many of your accusations amount to a vast conspiracy theory. As to the emails…we'll see. But i do note that not all of AGW theory is based on their info and models.

http://intensedebate.com/people/CanadianSense CanadianSense

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The Billions missing is a fact, not a conspiracy theory.

The relatively small group involved in the IPCC documents is another fact not a theory.

Using a short timeline to decry the end of the world by the small number is not a theory it is a fact.

I have NOT personally requested the Raw Temp Data, Computer Models and been refused. I suggest you look at why those requests were denied for years and why those groups are being sued and investigated.

It is not a conspiracy theory that people in position of power like to have more money. Those skeptics would not have a leg to stand on if the data and models were public domain.